Re: [Jscheme-user] hack of the day - reminder

[Geoffrey K. <ge...@kn...>]

I think "hack of the day" is a great idea.  Literature of many kinds is 
assembled from small pieces.  Where would we be without poets who 
practice their trade at least a little every day?

I wondered why Richard Gabriel suggested programmers shouldn't write a 
hack a day.  At first I thought, it's because good programs address a 
need.  The absence of need plants no seed.  But even when poets muse, 
when they are not driven to write, they strive for purpose and effect.  
We need little programs as much as we need little poems.

Geoffrey
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Geoffrey S. Knauth | http://knauth.org/gsk

On Jun 16, 2004, at 16:27, Ken Anderson wrote:

> Dick Gabriel http://www.dreamsongs.com/ one said he was forcing 
> himself to write one poem a day as part of becoming a better writer.  
> He had several hundred.  I asked if there was something like this a 
> programmer should do.
> Unfortunately, he didn't think so.  [...]  Maybe writing a hack a day 
> is the first step.